Saturday, October 2, 2010

As you would expect, it was a pretty downcast scene among the Georgia staff and players. Folsom Field is set up in such a way that people leave the locker room right where fans exit the stadium.

So a lot of Georgia fans hung, with one or two yelling a few choice words, but at no one in particular. A.J. Green, as he was interviewed, got a few "way to go A.J.'s." When Mark Richt exited and walked towards us, I didn't hear anything untoward.

Richt, when asked what his main priority was now, said, "Getting home safe."

“Losing’s not good,” Richt said. “But there’s a lot of good things that came out of this, just as far as the effort and the attitude of this group. There’s a lot of things I could point to as a coach to be proud of as these guys. But the bottom line in football is wins and losses. And right now we haven’t gotten a win in awhile.”

As for the Caleb King fumble, Aaron Murray said that King just got hit once he got the ball.

"I just wish it would've bounced my way instead of going the other way," Murray said. "I don't know where the guy came from. I just handed it off to him, I guess he got it and it came out. ... You can't blame Caleb. You know everyone's gonna make mistakes here and there."

Richt said the call that was played was the team's "No. 1 running play."

“I think he was trying to make a spin move as he was getting the ball,” Richt said. “You know, that’s his instinct, to try to make somebody miss. But we’ve gotta get the ball first, and he just didn’t do that. But Caleb, he gave great effort, he made great runs.”

The sharpest comments came from senior defensive end Demarcus Dobbs.

"We didn't represent Georgia well. We didn't represent the SEC well,” Dobbs said. “The only people we have to blame is ourselves."

"There's going to be frustration. We're Georgia, we never expected to (have) four losses in a row to the teams that we lost to. But you just have to push ahead. You can't turn on each other. All we've got is each other, so we just have to stick together, keep grinding, watch film, and finish the season out on a high note, hopefully."

I was there when Dobbs said the above comments. In comments that were provided by Colorado's sports information department, Dobbs was quoted as saying:

"I thought it was a shoe-in, that's how comfortable I was. I put my helmet down, I was ready to run on the field and celebrate. But it didn't happen that way. We made a fatal mistake and that type of stuff needs to be corrected. We cannot turn the ball over at the end of the game. It felt like death to me."

I really don't understand all of the "Fire Bobo" speak. Bobo is there for one reason, because Mark Richt believes in him and his abilities. Shouldn't this say something about Richt? He's the one who put him in charge of the offense to begin with. It's the equivalent of saying, "I love this restaurant, but all of the food is terrible." It just makes no sense, if Bobo needs to go then so does Richt.

im tired of pushing ahead and looking to next week comments, how about we look at how bad we played in all of these games and fix and try to fix it

goos teams hell any other team learns and gets better every week we just get worse. Letting opponents score a td on their opening drive every week just goes to show our preparation... none. we are so bad i dont even know what the problem is.

There's tons of instability around this program at the moment. I have heard that Richt is most definitely fired, that he is retiring, his job is safe, etc. Either way, fans are not pleased one bit and I hope McGarity was paying attention when Foley hired Urban Meyer.

It has been coming all along. We just did not want to admit because Richt is a good person. He gets Georgia pay and gives less than Kentucky results. Let's not forget we got beat by KY and Vandy last year.

AGAIN MARK RICHT WAKE THE **** UP AND GET THIS DA** TEAM TOGETHER, STOP MAKING FU**** EXCUSES, FIRE BOBO, I KNOW YOU HEAR US TALKING, FIRE BOBO'S LAME *** AND GET THIS PROGRAM WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE. DONT FIRE BOBO AND YOU ARE GONE....WATCH. I HOPE WE ARENT 1-5 NEXT WEEK, WAKE THE **** UP.

How is it possible that we have two different def coaching staffs with completely different philosiphies with the same results? It's not just that were playing bad. Were doing it in a very similar way to last year. I don't get it. Seriously how is it possible? If it was coaching wouldn't we suck in a new way this year? With all this fire bobo talk i find myself getting much more frustrated at the defense! I'm not really as embarrassed by our off as our def. I wish rennie curran wouldn't of left early!

as for our defense.. at the end of the day they have put us in a position to win EVERY game we have played this season... the same couldnt have been said last year...

Its Granthams first year and not only does it take time to coach the players up and get them comfortable in the new positions and responsibilities but it also takes more time to recruit players that fit the system... Does our defense need to get better YES but with a new coach and new system Im willing to give it time..

As for our offense lets be serious... Coach Bobo is and has always been one of the worst offensive coordinators in the SEC... we have had some of the most talented players in all of college football at this school year in and year out and either Bobo didnt play them or he didnt deliver with his offensive playcalling.. and to the guy that said Richt should be on the hot seat bc of Bobo I agree but at the end of the day if he chooses to let Bobo go than I think hell be here another year...kids want to play for him and truth is I can honestly say although hes stumbled the last couple of years he is still one of the best out there, same doesnt go for Bobo...

Lets not be fair weather fans and give up cheering on our dawgs but lets also remember that we have to ultimately fight for our boys to have the best (not Bobo) in order to reach their true potential... GO DAWGS

I'm tired of giving a pass every week to the defense. I think that after 5 games, your "new defensive scheme" should be showing some signs of progress. When you are consistently giving up opening-drive TD's every game and constantly getting beat on third down, something is obviously not clicking. Great job stopping them on the next-to-final drive to give the offense a chance to win it, but, really? Colorado? The offense actually shows up (courtesy of AJ Green...God Bless him) and the defense gave up a two-touchdown lead after halftime. WTF.

You can place a lot of the blame on Bobo and play calling (Ahem, two three-and-out's with AJ sidelined with cramps and poor red-zone schemes) but defense is what wins football games. Grantham may not have next season to show progress. He's got to do it now.

I agree.. but honestly if you go back to every game weve played I see a defense that was decent (although we have a lot to work on)... Players are making basic mistakes and thats the easiest to fix... Granthams schemes have put our players in position to make the plays now its up to him to coach up our players to be able to make them.. honestly what more can you ask for from a first year DC... Willie seems to have left Grantham with a lot of coaching to do...

Am i giving him a complete pass, NO... but I will cut him a little slack, I dont think we should be on a fire Grantham boat lol...

I have been tooting the fire Bobo horn long before this season... He is just not a good coordinator, no ifs and and buts about it... I never thought I would see the day that our football program would be at this level during a Richt led team... the positive is that Richt knows now that Bobo needs to be gone and he can start looking for a replacement... Our boys are fighting hard and Im behind them the rest of the way... but Bobo--- tell him he needs to find another form of employment--- maybe quarterbacks coach for a lingerie football team.. naw even they dont deserve to be put in this position...

a) agree that grantham needs time. hopefully he'll get a chance to do that.

b) it'd be nearly impossible to find a better coach than mark richt, and i can't figure out what is going on with this time.

c) bobo is employed and mike leach isn't. this is crazy world. let's match grantham's contract and salary and go hire an offensive genius. coach richt can run special teams/oversee the team. but, for now... absolutely have to get rid of bobo. coach richt can call the plays or we can hire a new OC. don't care. but you can't start a possession on the 24 vs. colorado and leave with 3 points. to me, it couldn't have been clear that we needed a better OC than the 08 bama game. AJ, MoMass, Stafford, and Knowshon, and a decent oline and we get shut out in the first half. no way that should happen. leach (for example) could probably score 70 points a game with our talent. hell, so could dan mullen.

I don't think we should fire Grantham at all, I just don't know if he would be retained by a new head coaching staff should this be Richt's last season. You know how they want to bring in their own stuff. Although, I don't know how the AD can afford to buyout his and Richt's contracts, even though we have one of the 2 richest AD's in the country.

And just for the sake of it, let me state that I don't agree with firing Richt after this season. I believe he's earned the right to have a shot at fixing his own mess. As a leader of men myself, I always appreciate the opportunity to correct my mistakes before micromanagement sets in.

In that light, I've been on the Fire Bobo boat since the second drive of the Oklahoma State game last year. Abandoning what works for "blindly calling" plays just for the sake of calling them? Bobo needs to GoGo.

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Seth Emerson has been covering the SEC and Georgia (on and off) since 2002. He worked at the Albany Herald from 2002-05, then spent five years at The State in Columbia, S.C., covering South Carolina. He returned to Athens in August of 2010, only to find that David Pollack and David Greene were no longer playing for the Bulldogs. Adjustments were made.

Emerson is originally from Silver Spring, Md., and graduated from Maryland in 1998 with a degree in journalism and a minor in getting lost on the way to practically everywhere. Then he spent four years at The Washington Post, covering small colleges, a couple NCAA basketball tournaments, and on one glorious day, was yelled at by Tony Kornheiser. It was probably at The Post that he also learned to write in the third person.

These days he lives in Athens with his beloved and somewhat wimpy dog, Archie. Together they fight crime at night in northeast Georgia, except on nights there is no crime, in which case they sit at home, sip on white wine and watch reruns of "Mad Men."